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...Nathan Glazer (to whom The Winding Passage is dedicated), Sam Huntington and James Q. Wilson. Neo-conservatives worry about things like the breakdown of authority patterns, the political paralysis caused by manifold interest groups and the economic woes associated with greater state control over the economy. Bell denies the sobriquet "neo-conservative" to his students, but he clearly shares many concerns with those who actually do enjoy the label...
Pfeiffer's troubles at NBC began almost as soon as she arrived. She was quickly faced with a nasty $1 million scandal involving expense-account fraud and kickbacks among field-unit managers. Pfeiffer, who once spent six months in a convent, earned herself the sobriquet "Attila the Nun" by rooting out the wrongdoers with the wrath of God and a team of lawyers and accountants that ran up a tab of more than $2 million. "It looks like you sent in the whole damned Marines to rescue a cat," Vice Chairman Richard Salant reportedly quipped at a staff meeting...
...Abdul-Jabbar, the N.B.A.'s five-time Most Valuable Player, the compleat center whose size (7 ft. 2 in.) does not diminish his grace. Julius Erving, the flashy, 6-ft. 6-in. forward from the now defunct A.B.A., whose rafter-clearing leaps and fluid moves earned him the sobriquet Dr. J (as in, watch him operate). Only after a merger of the warring leagues and four years of playoff eliminations did Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers dominate the West and Erving's 76ers conquer the East...
...people living in squalid, overcrowded camps scattered across the Middle East. But this community also includes artists and poets, builders and bureaucrats, doctors and teachers. Their industry and zeal for learning (20 out of every 1,000 are in a college or university somewhere) have earned them the sobriquet "the Jews of the Arab world...
...Cuba. No wonder, in the view of Paris, the Soviets got the impression that they could ride roughshod over the West. The French feel that Washington does not fully appreciate their efforts in seeking to contain Moscow-inspired expansionism in Africa, a role that has earned them the sobriquet "the West's Cubans." In Chad, Mauritania, Zaire and, last month in Tunisia, the French moved quickly to give military support to governments that were threatened by externally sponsored subversion...